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An American in Paris: The Musical (Blu-ray)
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DVD Details
- Interactive Menus
- Theatrical Trailer
- Scene Access
- Audio: English [CC],French
- Subtitles: English, French
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 54 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 6, 2000
- Originally Released: 1951
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron & Nina Foch | |
Performer: | Oscar Levant & Georges Guetary | |
Directed by | Vincente Minnelli | |
Edited by | Adrienne Fazan | |
Music by | George Gershwin | |
Written by | Alan Jay Lerner | |
Composition by | Johnny Green & Saul Chaplin | |
Lyricist: | Ira Gershwin | |
Cinematography by | Alfred Gilks & John Alton | |
Produced by | Arthur Freed |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1951 -
Best Adapted or Musical Song/Score: Johnny Green & Saul Chaplin
Academy Awards 1951 -
Best Art Direction - Set Decoration (Color): Cedric Gibbons & Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1951 -
Best Cinematography: Alfred Gilks
Academy Awards 1951 -
Best Costume Design (Color): Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1951 -
Best Original Screenplay: Alan Jay Lerner
Academy Awards 1951 -
Best Picture: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1951 -
Honorary Awards: Gene Kelly
Entertainment Reviews:
Inspired by the late George Gershwin's impressionistic musical suite of the same name, the picture is one of the finest musicals Hollywood has ever produced.
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New York Daily News
The Gershwin songs are magnificent, and the climactic ballet a tour de force that won the great Hungarian-born cameraman John Alton an Oscar.
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Observer (UK)
Rating: 4/5 --
Seven Oscars resulted in 1952, for once deserved.
London Evening Standard
Rating: 4/5 --
It is a little sugary and theatrical and perhaps it has dated less well than other classic Hollywood musicals. But there is charm and a kind of willed American innocence.
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Guardian
Rating: 3/5 --
Fresher than ever.
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Independent (UK)
It's hard not to be charmed by Gene Kelly's featherweight smiles and amazing dancing. But the film as a whole is -- and let no one contradict me on this -- a complete trifle.
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Nerdist
...Minnelli creates a magical, stylised world in which music, colour and movement are all perfectly integrated...
Sight and Sound
Description by OLDIES.com:
Gene Kelly, producer Arthur Freed, director Vincente Minnelli and an ace creative team conjure sheer screen magic, one of the American Film Institute's Top-100 American Films.
Kelly plays an ex-GI who loves Paris and loves even more an alluring (but engaged) perfume-shop clerk (Leslie Caron in her beguiling screen debut). Dance sequences spun around Gershwin songs accent Kelly's romantic pursuit. And the final 17-minute ballet -- combining the title symphony, Impressionist set stylings and Kelly's unique talent for telling a story in dance -- lifts this winner of six academy Awards including Best Picture into the ether of timelessness. "Love Is Here To Stay," Kelly sings. So Is An American In Paris.
Product Description:
One of the greatest of 1950s screen musicals is a happy collaboration between the grace and athleticism of Gene Kelly and the colorful palette of director Vincente Minnelli. An American G.I. lingers in Paris after the war to study painting and soon falls in love with Leslie Caron, an engaged demoiselle, much to the chagrin of his romance-minded benefactress. This classic musical boasts a 17-minute avant-garde ballet choreographed by Kelly to George Gershwin's unbeatable music. AN AMERICAN IN PARIS garnered eight Academy Award nominations and six wins, including Best Picture and Best Story and Screenplay. Kelly won a special Oscar for his inimitable achievements.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 131,450
- UPC: 012569506923
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